Trigger warning: The following article has references to suicide. Please avoid reading if you feel distressed by the subject.
When her biological father died by suicide, a year after he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu was a preschooler. But she found out about this tragedy only as a teenager. On the occasion of World Suicide Prevention Day, she talks about her memoir, Everything Changes, where she writes about how the mystery and the whispers surrounding her father’s demise shadowed her childhood and growing-up years, the stifled suffering of survivor families, and how it took her four decades to accept and forgive him, understand his then state of mind, and respect him for the person he was. Edited excerpts:
